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Alfred Thayer Mahan (September 27, 1840 – December 1, 1914) was a United States Navy admiral, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century. [mehr][weniger]

Evelyn Ward Everett-Green (17 November 1856, London – 23 April 1932, Funchal) was an English novelist who started her writing career with improving and pious stories for children, and later wrote historical fiction for older girls, and then adult romantic fiction. [mehr][weniger]

The usual scenes were visible on the wharf--the rushing on board of belated freight and baggage--the crush of passengers and their friends on deck, or down inthe cabins, where partings were being drunk in wine [mehr][weniger]

Alfred Thayer Mahan (September 27, 1840 – December 1, 1914) was a United States Navy admiral, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century."[1] His concept of "sea power" was based on the idea that countries with greater naval power will have greater worldwide impact; it was most famously presented inTheInfluence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660–1783 (1890). [mehr][weniger]

There is only one Book that never grows old.
For thousands of years men have been writing books. Most books are forgotten soon after they are written; a few of the best and wisest are remembered for a time. [mehr][weniger]

America, When It Became Known To Europeans, Was, As It Had Long Been,
A Scene Of Wide-Spread Revolution. North And South, Tribe Was Giving
Place To Tribe, Language To Language; For TheIndian, Hopelessly
Unchanging in respect To Individual And Social Development, Was, As
Regarded tribal Relations And Local Haunts, Mutable As The Wind. In
Canada And The Northern Section Of The United states, The Elements Of
Change Were Especially Active. TheIndian Population Which, In 1535,
Cartier Found At Montreal And Quebec, Had Disappeared at The Opening of
The Next Century, And Another Race Had Succeeded, In language And Customs
Widely Different; While, Inthe Region Now Forming the State Of New York,
A Power Was Rising to A Ferocious Vitality, Which, But For The Presence
Of Europeans, Would Probably Have Subjected, Absorbed, Or Exterminated
Every Other Indian Community East Of The Mississippi And North Of The
Ohio. [mehr][weniger]

America, When It Became Known To Europeans, Was, As It Had Long Been,
A Scene Of Wide-Spread Revolution. North And South, Tribe Was Giving
Place To Tribe, Language To Language; For TheIndian, Hopelessly
Unchanging in respect To Individual And Social Development, Was, As
Regarded tribal Relations And Local Haunts, Mutable As The Wind. In
Canada And The Northern Section Of The United states, The Elements Of
Change Were Especially Active. TheIndian Population Which, In 1535,
Cartier Found At Montreal And Quebec, Had Disappeared at The Opening of
The Next Century, And Another Race Had Succeeded, In language And Customs
Widely Different; While, Inthe Region Now Forming the State Of New York,
A Power Was Rising to A Ferocious Vitality, Which, But For The Presence
Of Europeans, Would Probably Have Subjected, Absorbed, Or Exterminated
Every Other Indian Community East Of The Mississippi And North Of The
Ohio. [mehr][weniger]